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vs. the notion of equipotential cognitive architectures

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

Remember: if Sally Rooney had said that she supports Israel's war crimes, apartheid, occupation and genocide in Gaza, her books could still be sold in Britain.

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

Is this person not donating her profits to x precisely because they AREN’T what they are supposed to be?

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

@LPerrins The IRA actually killed people

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

@nicolelampert @DAaronovitch What about an miss-proscribed one?

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

“Hi, I’ve spent less than an hour on this”

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed well over 100,000 people, yet no major human rights organization calls it genocide. Why? Because genocide is about intent: a project to eradicate a people. After Japan surrendered, America occupied it, helped rebuild it, and by 1952, it was an ally.

Compare that to Gaza, where “genocide” is now used freely.

Israel has not committed genocide in Gaza. Facilitating the transfer of food, humanitarian aid, and vaccinations is undeniable proof of that.

Changing the definition of genocide to mean “a lot of death in war” dishonors victims of actual genocides and erases the truth about the war against Hamas.

(via: Sam Harris on the @MakingSenseHQ Podcast)

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

The "burden of proof is on you if you claim that consciousness is not magic" crowd is endlessly amusing

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

@portraitinflesh The (very obvious) point is that nobody has to, Tim

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

@RyanMorey @Philip_Goff I actually had that feeling and it turned out it wasn’t accurate

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

@Philip_Goff But they often feel different each time

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

@HadleyFreeman I wasn’t aware that was also a dipshit question

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

@bbcnickrobinson Because it’s moronic?

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

@ArthurCDent Very good. Quite disturbing

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

@TheCAThomas @_imdawon Yes people tend to have heard stories from diving incidents overlooking that going from 20atmospheres to 1 is much greater than 1 to 0

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

In that case, I’m going to make a coffee right now

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Coffee preserves the main biological mechanisms of aging.

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

Department manager is “Working” from Home

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

Something which makes me suspicious: People who are hyper-realist on some foreign policy issues and hyper-idealist on others. E.g thinking both 1) In the interests of peace, Ukraine should come to some compromise settlement with Russia, whether or not all their sovereign territory is returned (hyper-realist) and 2) The only acceptable outcome in the Middle East is a single secular Palestinian state where jews and Palestinians live peacefully side-by-side (hyper-idealist).

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

@J_Bloodworth Is Zionism ethno-nationalist?

[Nde Spn @NdeSpn]

@jwordfish lol

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

Good thread! Yep I’m one who sent 3 kids to a local state school, in a poorer regional area - although I could easily afford a private school.

Why? Three reasons: